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by Phil82
Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:09 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Will someone tell me it's going to be OK?
Replies: 13
Views: 13368

Re: Will someone tell me it's going to be OK?

Mellel has a lot of promise. I bought a license sometime in late 2006, because Mellel is a stable word processor and because it was promising a new version that would arrive by end of 2006 that would include x-refs and the like. I guess you could say that I bought a product based on what it was goin...
by Phil82
Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:04 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Where are cross references / text flow around images?
Replies: 46
Views: 78261

Re: Where are cross references / text flow around images?

But at the same time I can't say how glad I am about Mellel in its actual state already. (The imagination of having to use Word instead of Mellel is really cruel.) I think excluding either-or- or even pass-fail-positions don't have the ability to reflect reality. It's mostly both-and. But that's ju...
by Phil82
Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:28 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Where are cross references / text flow around images?
Replies: 46
Views: 78261

Re: Where are cross references / text flow around images?

Unlike operating systems (!). I find your ignorance of the history of software development… disturbing. If you've read that book, you'll realize that there is a lot to learn from the mistakes that were made previously. What's the point of reading a book on historic software failures if the only des...
by Phil82
Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:55 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Spotlight for Leopard
Replies: 45
Views: 63283

Re: Spotlight for Leopard

It would be cool to have Quicklook functionality. Tell me Apple's not being dicks about this, shutting developers out or charging them a fee to get in.
Why would they?
by Phil82
Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:37 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Goodbye Microsoft 2008; bring it on Mellel!
Replies: 18
Views: 19089

Re: Goodbye Microsoft 2008; bring it on Mellel!

I'm afraid I've heard it all before... And from what I gather is the general attitude of people visiting these boards, I'd be a fool to invest money in what a software "promises" to do in the future . Instead, I should buy software for what it does right now . I've been waiting for cross ...
by Phil82
Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:16 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Where are cross references / text flow around images?
Replies: 46
Views: 78261

Re: Where are cross references / text flow around images?

There are many software packages available that specialize in layout when our requirements are more complex than Mellel can handle. That is hardly an adequate answer, especially given that certain features are 4 years late. Unlike operating systems, people do need word processors to arrive in a tim...
by Phil82
Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:12 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: And Now A Word From Our Sponsors......(please!)
Replies: 12
Views: 19252

Re: And Now A Word From Our Sponsors......(please!)

I know I'm not the only one to think this, but we don't need to know exactly what's going on behind the scenes. However, it might be very handy if the Redlers gave it's users even a condensed post at frequent intervals, like what Ori just gave. This greatly reassures users that work is being done in...
by Phil82
Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:30 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Video Codec Trojan Horse for Mac
Replies: 3
Views: 4236

Seriously. This is no different from receiving an email, telling you to do rm -rf ~/
by Phil82
Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:41 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Still waiting for text wrap around on images
Replies: 7
Views: 7942

Nope, it's not here yet. It comes when it comes, I guess. I too am eagerly awaiting the new version.
by Phil82
Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:19 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: writing direction: downward=text turning 90degrees
Replies: 5
Views: 5779

I think you need to remember that Mellel is first and foremost a word processor. What you are describing sounds like a poster, something better done in a page layout application. I know, Word does it. But then again Word is a pretty horrible word processor and a pretty horrible page layout app as we...
by Phil82
Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:41 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel for Thesis (or not)? Page numbers, TOC...
Replies: 8
Views: 9390

Do you need cross references? That is what stops me from using Mellel in my thesis, and no I won't whine again about how long I've been waiting for this feature :P. In its current form, Mellel works really well for short academic papers where you can reference everything manually. For long thesis le...
by Phil82
Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:48 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel vs. MS Word--major advantages of Mellel
Replies: 44
Views: 63893

ptram, could you kindly elaborate on your statement? Why is this Warnock Pro worth so much money? The academic papers I've published thus far have all be very happy with Times New Roman. I fail to see why this font could justify a price tag, let alone $199. Between Times New Roman and Georgia ... $1...
by Phil82
Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:10 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel vs. MS Word--major advantages of Mellel
Replies: 44
Views: 63893

What is this Warnock and why is it worth $199? :shock:

It looks like Times New Roman to me.
by Phil82
Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:42 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: iPhone user guide made in FrameMaker
Replies: 5
Views: 6131

How about just using LaTeX? I've never used Framemaker but LaTeX is pretty good when you need to work in a long document with complex layouts and so on.
by Phil82
Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:37 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Splash screen
Replies: 1
Views: 3301

The original reason software started coming with a splash screen was to give the user some visual feedback when an application took ages to load. The splash screen alerted the user to the fact that something was happening and the application is launching. Imagine how frustrating it would be if you l...